Male domination of Australia s Olympic coaching ranks has been slammed just days after the wild celebration of swimming coach Dean Boxall was condemned as an act of toxic masculinity .
Writing for women s careers website Allbright, journalist Brooke Le Poer Trench recalled a conversation with her husband after he wondered why there were so few Australian female swimming coaches at the Tokyo Olympics. Maybe the male style of coaching is better at that elite level? Le Poer Trench said her husband asked.
She then described her reaction to the comment as fuming. It s obviously a boys club, she wrote. It s unconscious bias. Or perhaps it s even more blatant than that.